Capacitor Plague

Capacitor plague - high failure rate of electrolytic capacitors produced between 1999 and 2007. Article “Capacitor Plague” in German Wikipedia has 64.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 31 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Since the creation of article “Capacitor Plague”, its content was written by 54 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 371 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in German Wikipedia and cited 70 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #3774 in September 2011
• Global: #31121 in January 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #69209 in October 2014
• Global: #38129 in May 2013

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Capacitor plague		68.7477
2	German (de) Capacitor Plague		64.84
3	Chinese (zh) 電容災難		41.7032
4	Russian (ru) Конденсаторная чума		41.0235
5	Portuguese (pt) Praga dos capacitores		37.6166
6	Swedish (sv) Kondensatorpest		19.2013
7	Japanese (ja) 不良電解コンデンサ問題		17.0661
8	Italian (it) Piaga dei condensatori		12.9131

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Capacitor Plague" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Capacitor plague		2 336 243
2	Japanese (ja) 不良電解コンデンサ問題		546 002
3	Chinese (zh) 電容災難		95 166
4	German (de) Capacitor Plague		94 917
5	Swedish (sv) Kondensatorpest		17 759
6	Russian (ru) Конденсаторная чума		14 095
7	Portuguese (pt) Praga dos capacitores		4 323
8	Italian (it) Piaga dei condensatori		93

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Capacitor Plague" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Capacitor plague		4 474
2	Japanese (ja) 不良電解コンデンサ問題		566
3	Chinese (zh) 電容災難		303
4	German (de) Capacitor Plague		249
5	Russian (ru) Конденсаторная чума		150
6	Portuguese (pt) Praga dos capacitores		43
7	Italian (it) Piaga dei condensatori		29
8	Swedish (sv) Kondensatorpest		20

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Capacitor Plague" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Capacitor plague		250
2	German (de) Capacitor Plague		54
3	Chinese (zh) 電容災難		23
4	Japanese (ja) 不良電解コンデンサ問題		20
5	Swedish (sv) Kondensatorpest		10
6	Russian (ru) Конденсаторная чума		7
7	Italian (it) Piaga dei condensatori		4
8	Portuguese (pt) Praga dos capacitores		3

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Capacitor Plague" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Capacitor plague		2
2	Italian (it) Piaga dei condensatori		1
3	German (de) Capacitor Plague		0
4	Japanese (ja) 不良電解コンデンサ問題		0
5	Portuguese (pt) Praga dos capacitores		0
6	Russian (ru) Конденсаторная чума		0
7	Swedish (sv) Kondensatorpest		0
8	Chinese (zh) 電容災難		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Capacitor Plague" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Capacitor plague		32
2	Chinese (zh) 電容災難		10
3	German (de) Capacitor Plague		8
4	Swedish (sv) Kondensatorpest		7
5	Japanese (ja) 不良電解コンデンサ問題		6
6	Portuguese (pt) Praga dos capacitores		4
7	Russian (ru) Конденсаторная чума		3
8	Italian (it) Piaga dei condensatori		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German Capacitor Plague
en	English Capacitor plague
it	Italian Piaga dei condensatori
ja	Japanese 不良電解コンデンサ問題
pt	Portuguese Praga dos capacitores
ru	Russian Конденсаторная чума
sv	Swedish Kondensatorpest
zh	Chinese 電容災難

Best Rank

German: #69209 10.2014

Global: #38129 05.2013

Best Rank

German: #3774 09.2011

Global: #31121 01.2015

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